This appearance
in Long Beach, CA was coordinated by one of the High Speed Motorsports
sponsors, Curtis & Christensen Auto Parts. The benefit was
hosted by the Sultans Car Club of Long Beach with the Long Beach
K-9 Officers Association. 100% of all proceeds went to the support,
training and purchase of police K-9 dogs. The High Speed Motorsports
team displayed the car from 9am - 2pm and fired it twice. They
also had numerous people sit in the car and take pictures. Driver,
Sean Bellemeur also took pictures and signed autographs. The
event include a very cool K-9 demonstration. The dogs did some
drug / bomb sniffing, car searches and suspect take downs. The
HSMS team will be back next year if their schedule permits.

Although the
weather was overcast, there was a large turn out of hot rodders
and fans.

Brett
Johansen with one of the many visitors who got to sit in the
car.

Preparing
for a fire-up.

In the car was
the president or one of the officers of the Sultans Car Club.
He was all smiles and joking till just before they started the
car, then got a very serious look - "what was I thinking"
kind of look.

As always, the sound of a 3000
horsepower dragster engine on nitro attracts everyone in sight.

Sean presented
a check from High Speed Motor Sports to the K-9 Officers assn.
/ MC of the event.

Through out the
day the dogs went through their paces - They use the Belgian
Malinois almost exclusively for the K-9 patrols. They are amazing
dogs, between 22" and 26" tall and only 50-60 lbs -
but in one of the demonstrations a single dog pulls a grown man
all the way out of a culvert pipe by the guys foot! After you
see thisdemonstration a half dozen others, you will do EXACTLY
what any K-9 officer tells you to do! Those dogs just love their
jobs too. LB K-9 also has bloodhounds - Lucy is the famous one,
but there was a puppy there too.